• According to Burmese legend the site where the Sule pagoda now stands was once the home of a powerful nat (spirit) named Sularata (the Sule Nat).
  • The Sule pagoda is named after Sularata, the Sule Nat (spirit) who lived at the spot where the pagoda now stands. ... How to get to the Sule Pagoda.
  • build Year established: Over 2600 years ago. directions Directions: place Location: Sule Roundabout, Sule Pagoda Road, Kyauktada Township, Yangon, Myanmar.
  • Yes, Chinatown is west of the Sule Pagoda, Be sure to see Mahabandoola Garden with the Independence Monument right by the pagoda.
  • It is worth visiting the Sule Pagoda to understand the Nats and witness the murals an relics of three reincarnations of the Buddha.
  • Sule Pagoda owns a typical pagoda architecture, can be seen in some Asia countries: Laos, Thailand, and Cambodia.
  • Sule Pagoda can be reached through four entrances of the four stairways facing four cardinal directions or by two overhead bridges.
  • Believed to house Sularanat, one of oldest spirits to have witness the creation of Shwedagon Pagoda, Sule is at the heart of Downtown Yangon.
  • So, one of the myths tells that the place where the Sule pagoda was built, intended to store the Buddha's hair, was indicated by two monks Sonia and Uttarze.
  • Thus, instead of just housing one Buddha relic, the Sule Pagoda site houses four. ... One of the interesting features of Sule Pagoda is the pagoda itself.